Slideshow: 12 Worst Government Websites

Many governments and agencies have been striving to make their Websites more up-to-date and accessible, but some remain shocking examples of bad user experience.

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The layout for the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit's Website is organized, and easy to navigate. But what's with the randomly-placed boxes in the middle of the site? It's as if the Web developers got about two-thirds of the way done and then just decided to plop some links in the middle of the screen.

ITís tried for years to simplify data analytics and business intelligence efforts. Have visual analysis tools and Hadoop and NoSQL databases helped? Respondents to our 2014 InformationWeek Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Information Management Survey have a mixed outlook.